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Charity & Awareness

Charity and Awareness is an important thing. Below are some important organizations that we have talked about there at Bleeding Yankee Blue. You may click on the links and read or perhaps donate if you choose. You'll notice some pretty important people attached to these organizations. You can also read about what they say about them from past interviews. Enjoy this.

BYB: You are involved with charity work and people don’t realize how important it is as a star athlete to give back. Tell me about your charity work and why it’s so important to you?

Paul O'Neill:It
has been going on most of my career. You make appearances for
non-profits and banquets and golf tournaments and such to help them
raise money. I can do more now because my kids aren’t so young and I
don’t play a hundred and eighty games a year. You should give back as
much as you can. Many, many people in the world suffer. With my
non-profit, Right Field Charities,
we particularly focus on giving free memorabilia to charity events
that raise desperately needed funds for childrens’ causes. Someday,
God-willing, we will be able to fill every request or most of the
requests but the needs out there in the world are gargantuan so we all
have to pitch in. Like Joe Torre said, and his charity does
tremendous work, small steps. I plan on living a long time and
building from what we started.

BYB: You are leading the charge with BeEdmond and making people aware of Teen suicide prevention. How is it going?

Ty Hensley: It is going very well... the
initial fund-raising of $40,000 is complete and the app is built. In
addition to the personal donations, we had some big community partners
step up and get it done. Please let me take a moment to thank those of
you that are reading this that donated. It is a small step towards
making a big difference in connecting teens to their communities.

BYB: Tell me why High Socks for Hope was started & your goal?David Robertson:
High Socks for Hope was started right after the tornadoes hit Alabama
on April 27, 2011. Tuscaloosa is my hometown; it is where I was born
and raised, went to high school and college. It is a place that will
always be home. Seeing it destroyed really affected me. I
knew I had to do whatever I could to help fix what had happened. My
wife and I discussed several options of what to do and where to donate
money, but decided we wanted to make sure we knew where it was going
and that 100% of it was going toward relief efforts. We opened the "David and Erin Robertson Foundation"
to start collecting donations and then the High Socks website to
start raising awareness of the devastation and needs that are present... Our goal is to
assist those that are in the most need. There are several families
that we work with that are either homeless or struggling to make ends
meet, and we are working hard to get those families in a safe place
and back on their feet.

Chris Dickerson:Along with Jack Cassel, I am the co-founder of Players for the Planet. We bring professional athletes
together to help inspire cities, communities to build awareness of a growing
environmental crisis in America. I feel like I am at that point in my life where it is time to do
something positive, not for myself, not for a select group of people but
rather try my hand at the global community. I want to be the one to
step up to the plate and make the issue of Global Warming a concern that
doesn’t just reside in the back of our minds, but it is brought to the
forefront of our reality. Although everyone is aware, I feel there needs
to be a sense of urgency among all Americans. There's so much happening with Players for the Planet right now.

BYB: Mr. Smalley, tell me about Pitch In for Baseball. What is your
mission?

Roy Smalley:Our
mission, to put it simply is to put baseball equipment in the hands of
kids who want to play ball but don’t have the resources to do so. We
source new and gently used baseball and softball equipment and
distribute it to youth baseball organizations and communities in need.
We accomplish this through equipment and cash donations from individuals
and organizations everywhere.

Natalie Niekro: The Joe Niekro Foundation
was established in 2007 in honor of my father. After my dad died from
the aneurysm, I immediately started doing research to find out as much
as I could about them. I was astonished by the lack of public awareness
and under-support of research of such a widespread and often fatal
condition. I decided that to launch the foundation to really bring
awareness to this condition.

BYB: Give us an idea of how important giving back is to your family?

Amber Sabathia:We’re very thankful for what we have, and we want to
help others in any way we can. Giving back and caring for others is at
the heart of our family. CC and I both grew up in the inner city in
Vallejo, CA and understand the needs of children and families. We
established our PitCCh In Foundation
five years ago that really focuses on helping inner city youth and we
also participate in many special projects here in the tri state area and
in our home town of Vallejo, CA...We are always looking to expand our donor base because we can't do
this alone. We want to reach any many youth as possible, especially
those who need to be inspired and motivated to pursue their dreams. Your readers can donate on www.PitCCh.org or consider sponsoring a team for the CC Challenge, our annual fundraiser and scavenger hunt in Central Park.

Lisa Varga: "Fight Club For Cancer gives cancer patients and their families hope. We
bring Athletes, Coaches, Sports Teams, Entertainment and Events together
for a cause. We coordinate hospital visits, phone calls, meet and
greets, sporting events, written letters, autographs, and support cancer
patients and their families any way we can.

We are a 501C3 not for profit organization. We're here to help raise
awareness and bring smiles to the faces of those who need it most. I
know it helped my brother to have a team behind him in his fight and I
hope we can help you too.
God Bless & Keep Fighting!"

BYB: Tell me about the CoolKids Campaign?Ken Singleton: CoolKids helps children and their families who are dealing with
Cancer issues. We are a non-profit organization that offers services to
families for free. Both my parents died because of cancer and I knew I
had to do something in their memory. For more information on the
CoolKidsCampaign, please go to CoolKidsCampaign.org and help anyway you like.

2 comments:

I have been searching for a site like yours. I was looking for a positive Yankees site/blog to follow. I've been following and reading it for a while now. You are positive, up beat, with humor and love for the team. I appreciate all the time you put into your blog as I know how demanding it can be. I love that you feature some of the player's charities as well as the write-ups about them. Thanks for giving this fan a blog to believe in. Keep up the good work.Carolyn